TABOO - TRANSGRESSION - TRANSCENDENCE

Digital and AI transformation in fashion design is currently leading to a dissolution of boundaries between material and visual cultures, between clothing and data modelling. From a cultural studies perspective I will analyse this transgression as disruptive shift in in textile thinking, clothing crafts and body practices.
What do data sewing, generative cloth or immersive skins mean, anthropologically, for the human being who is distinguished by dress and its intrinsic symbolic communication? How to redefine dress(ing), which turned the body into a writing and reading surface of material culture, in its digital environment? Starting from the first purely visual experience as digital information, cloth/ing data challenges the sense of sight in different pictorial complexities (simulation, animation, transformation). They can be transferred by print or other production means into wearables of real materiality or continue to exist as "visibles," "virtualisibles," and "visionables." 
The new quality of operational iconicity of clothing will enhance human cognition and bodily functions as anticipated in transhumanist technologies and posthumanist thought. The far-reaching implications of digital and AI generated fashion will be discussed at the example of the transcendence taboo which finds an expression in a phenomenon which I want to call "transglothing" – a transgressive force of energetic/glowing cloth(es) in the digital and immersive realm of futurity.